Decision-makers faced with an opportunity to learn the outcome of a foregone
alternative must balance anticipated regret, should that information be unfavorable, with
the potential benefits of this information in reducing ...

We examined the relative frequency of social, counter factual, past-temporal, and future-temporal
comparison in daily life using an experience-sampling method, in which participants were
randomly prompted to record thought ...

What do people think about the emotion of regret? Recent demonstrations of the psychological
benefits of regret have been framed against an assumption that most people find regret to be
aversive, both when experienced ...

Psychological researchers have begun to utilize
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) marketplace as a participant
pool. Although past work has established that
MTurk is well suited to examining individual behavior,
pseudo-dyadic ...

Zeelenberg and Pieter's (2007) regret regulation theory 1.0 offers a synthesis that brings
together concepts spanning numerous literatures. We have no substantive disagreement with
their theory, but instead offer
3 ...

Past research has established a connection between regret (negative emotions
connected to cognitions about how past actions might have achieved better outcomes)
and
both
depression
and
anxiety.
in the present ...

The current research examines immediate regrets occurring at the time of a meaningful
life outcome to better understand influences on real-life regrets. This research used a
longitudinal approach to examine both initial ...

Regulatory focus theory distinguishes between two independent structures of strategic inclination,
promotion versus prevention. However, the theory implies two potentially independent definitions
of these inclinations, the ...

Which domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret,
and what features of those life domains explain why? Using
archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater
perceived opportunity within ...